2858. Sent in by someone who is looking for the purpose of this item, his description of it:

The hollow brass tube is 8" long, and has 1.5" diameter internal threads on each end. There are bands of reflective tape around it (this is coal mine country so maybe it was used in dark places). Threaded into one end is a knurled plug with a knurled screw threaded into it. The knurled screw has an O-ring on the end. The other end has a concave plug threaded into it that has a small threaded hole in the center.

2857. This is a Russian Soyuz 28 Navigation Unit, it was used to determine Latitude/Longitude, Landing Position, and Orbit Angle of Landing during flight.

Text on the three numeric readouts on the right say: "period, minutes", "orbits", and "angle of landing". The gauge on the top is for longitude, the one on the left side is for latitude, and the bottom dial says "shadow" on the right and presumably "light" on the left.Larger image

2862. This is most likely an old electrotherapy device, text on the jar lid says "The Samson Battery", the small wire tool might have been for scraping the contacts to get a better connection: Larger image

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2862 is definitely a quack medical device - the patient held the brass rods to receive a (supposed) therapeutic electric shock. Usually these used an automotive ignition coil which is what I believe the black cylindrical item is.